iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shas of gay | TED Talk

Contents:

• FIFTY SHAS OF GAY
• GALLERY: IO TILLETT WRIGHT EXAM THE 50+ SHAS OF GAY
• FIFTY SHAS OF GAY
• 50 SHAS OF GAY
• FIFTY SHAS OF GREY PARODY - 50 SHAS OF GREY GAY PARODY LYRICS

FIFTY SHAS OF GAY

3, 184, 520 views | iO Tillett Wright | TEDxWomen 2012 • December 2012iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2, 000 people who nsir themselv somewhere on the LGBTQ spectm -- and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are? Most people, turns out, nsir themselv to exist the gray areas of sexualy, not 100% gay or straight.

IO Tillett Wright has photographed 2, 000 people who nsir themselv somewhere on the LGBTQ spectm -- and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are? IO Tillett Wright: Fifty shas of gay.

As she reveals today’s bold talk, while marriage was far om her md 2008 when California’s Proposn 8 sparked a natnal bate over gay marriage, the nversatn still stck her like a punch. Tillett Wright had an ia: uld she photographilly troduce people agast the ia of gay marriage to the vast number of people the Uned State who nsir themselv somewhere along the LBGTQ spectm?

GALLERY: IO TILLETT WRIGHT EXAM THE 50+ SHAS OF GAY

Jodi’s fay disowned her when they found out she was gay. But on his release form he put down “100% GAY”, and we all had to eat our stereotyp.

FIFTY SHAS OF GAY

Brian tght me so much about how stereotyp of gay men as effemate are a bunch of naive hogwash. They pulled me asi and told me how important was that people know you n have a strong relatnship wh God, and still be gay.

I thought that took tremendo urage, not only to be openly gay a state like Tennsee, but to take on the relig battle as well. Chip was the only skateboarr who had ever e to be photographed, which kicked off a really tertg discsn about homophobia wh the macho world of skateboardg, and how we uld all help to rce . Before meetg him, and many like him, I had some prenceived, narrow view of what gay people looked like, (pecially men) — even if was a broad view by most standards.

And Kev Maxen, a ach wh the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars, out and is thought to be the first openly gay men’s ach Amerin pro of the Day: The more you know. How accurate is your “gaydar”? A lot of thk we know all about gay men—where they live, how they drs, how they rry themselv—as though beg gay means a uniform way of beg the world.

50 SHAS OF GAY

The most visible gay men, those who stand out the most, have tradnally lived ci. And some of end up livg a gay bubble, or what I ll the Gubble. The timat of how many gay men live the Uned Stat range om anywhere between 1.

Whatever the percentage, the tth is that many gay men do not f the narrow profile that media outlets propose, and they may not be easily intified by our “gaydar. ” In fact, many of the gay men who do not meet the popular creria may have at one time or another shown up at a therapist’s office wonrg how to al wh feelg ficient wh the muny.

More and more, gay men don’t jt live ci.

FIFTY SHAS OF GREY PARODY - 50 SHAS OF GREY GAY PARODY LYRICS

And as gay acceptance grows, so do the physil boundari of where one feels safe. The “gay ghetto “ is slowly dimishg many ci.

And as gay men are able to marry much of the untry, children are now a part of many gay men’s liv. Back 1977, the US Natnal Gay Task Force (NGTF) was ved to the Whe Hoe to meet Print Jimmy Carter’s reprentativ—a first for gay and lbian groups. Tth is, I would never have pegged him as gay, but at some pot he mentned havg gone to some of the bars near my office.